The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-02-27
BREAKFAST-TABI.E CHAT.

old families all to pieces.
BREAKFAST-TABLE CHAT.
FASHIONABLE young girls in London have alb
jured bracelets this season.
PUMP from which flowed stream of lemon
ade was worked by girls with plump and pretty
arms at Worcester. Mass, fair.
MARY ANDERSON says she will not marry UNI
til she leaves the stage, and she won't leave the
stage until old age compels her to-
ST. NICHOLAS: 'They never throw anything
away in New England" T. B. Aldrich said to me
one day; ''they always put it up in the attic
JOHN BRoUGHAM wrote a comic opera called
Tho Crimson Mask" twenty years ago. from
which "Ruddygore" is said to be deliberate
"crih"
THE most costly water-color in the world is a
soldier on outpost duty. It is valued at over
$500.
GEN. "CERRo GoRDo" WILLIAMS. of Ken
lucky. is the first person to receive tae benefit of
the Mexican pension act He is entitled to %
per month.
REV. HENRY WARD BEEcHER, in his sermon
Sunday. said: eff man believes in the old
idea of hell to-day. he is candidate for a luna
tic asylum"
THE Arabs claim that Eve was created twenty
two years before Adam was. and that Adam was
created simply because she was lonesome for
some one to talk to.
YoNKERs Statesman: When you are looking
for friend you are ''huntine him up" when
search is made for a rascal he is hunted down.
You understand how to discriminate now
IF you want to borrow money
Now s the time to speak,
For you should know, good people,
1t will be Lent next week.
Chestnut Ballads for February.
A FLORIST who was congratulated by lady
upon possessing such delightful profession, re-
piled: madame, when you come to know them,
flowers are just as disgusting as any other bust.
ness"
PRIVATE advices from London state that Mar
tin F. Upper is almost entirely broken down in
health He can neither read. write nor speak
intelligibly, though his mind is clear He will
be seventy-seven next july.
A WASHINGTON correspondent says that many
young women in society there are learning to
swear, and tells of caller who sent in his card
and heard in an adjoining room q young woman
say: Damn the man! Show him in"
ExGovERkoR RICE, of Massachusetts,, says
he never goes to Washington without the feeling
Of entering graveyard. OF the entire Massa-
chusetts delegation in Congress when he entered
it, Senator Dawes is the only man living.
PHILADELPHIA Press: The death of a woman
the other day in Chicago was attributed by the
coroners jury to excessive indulgence in con-
fectonery" We mention this for the warning
1t may convey to the girls of this caramel town
NEW YORK Grapic: With all Miss Fields ex-
perience she is very nervous before appearing in
public, and conducts herself for an hour before
hand as whimsically and irrationally as would a
school girl the occasion of her graduating
essay.
MARrHAs VINEYARD Herald: "Aroostook
county, Maine, is four times as large as Rhode
Island but 1t is not Rhode Island. The hip
popotamus is four times an big as the biggest ed
itor. but the hippopotamus is not an editor. Size
don't count.
that in Zululsnd he met the savage who killed
the French Prince Imperial, and told him that if
he had only taken the young man prisoner he
might have got a large ransom, whereupon the
Zulu wept with regret and grief
AT Washington reception. the other day,
after Miss Duke. whose mother is sister Of the
confederate General Morgan. had played the
violin, Miss Scott was asked to recite, and chose
o poem describing Morgan's raid in Ohio not
knowing that the raiders niece was listening to
the not very complimentary verses about her
uncle.
CONGRESSMAN ELECT HENRY CABOT LODGE,
OF NaSSdcnus0tte, Ii OeScrlDeC as "a Tall and ele-
CANT man in appearance and manners having
the cordial grace of an educated gentleman with
out detractng from his force and vigor as man.
He is about thiity-eight years Of age, with q
frank and engaging face. surrounded by light
brown whiskers."
In the April number Of Scribners Magazine
will be begun the publication of the eagerly
awaited unpublished letters of Thackeray. tits
understood that, taken together, they will form
q connected narrative Of that portion of the nov
elist's life which, heretofore has been shronded
in mystery the first (April installment consist
ing of letters written in 1847 and few wears fol-
lowing.
LONDON Truth: am glad that the Times has
at last discovered that the Emperor of Russia
ia not lunatic who shoots his aids de carr
like cartridges. He is-as l have more than
once stated-a narrow minded, we'll meaning
man, and, as despots 90, by means a bad one.
His mistake is that he does not perceive that
despotsm is out of date This will very probably
cost him his life
PROFESSIONAL humorists may be interested
in these two jokes Mrs. W.. walking on one
of the wharves at New York. loosely asked
sailor why a ship was always called She Oh
said the son Of Neptune, because the rigging
costs more than the hulL'n IA preacher who
kept huckster's shop was heard one day to saw
70 his shopmAn: John, have you uatsrsd the